Dr. Jairo A Melo M.D.
Pulmonologist | Pulmonary Disease
21 Spurs Ln Suite 230b San Antonio TX, 78240About
Dr. Jairo Melo practices Pulmonology in San Antonio, TX. A pulmonologist is a physician who possesses specialized knowledge and skill in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary conditions and diseases. Dr. Melo manages patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation, and is specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema, and complicated chest infections.
Education and Training
Pontifical University Bolivariana / Faculty of Medicine 1991
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Facultad de Medicina 1991
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- [Clinical trials. Some general ethical questions].
- Two checkpoint complexes are independently recruited to sites of DNA damage in vivo.
- Bradykinin-related peptides from Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis.
- The treatment of stage III carcinoma of the uterine cervix with telecobalt irradiation.
- [Serum aluminum concentration and the deferoxamine test in a group of patients under chronic hemodialysis].
- [Ideas on prescription writing in pregnancy].
- Severe hyponatremia and bradycardia associated with intravenous vasopressin
- Identification of sex-specific quantitative trait loci controlling alcohol preference in C57BL/ 6 mice.
- Sex-restricted non-Mendelian inheritance of mouse chromosome 11 in the offspring of crosses between C57BL/6J and (C57BL/6J x DBA/2J)F1 mice.
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